Sack full o’ pickle candy!

Ever since the 2nd grade, when our teacher announced we would exchange letters with pen pals in New Mexico, I have loved getting mail. I mean, I LOVE it…so getting pickle stuff in the mail on a pretty regular basis is probably my main reason for living, and of course, eating the stuff that comes in the mail…and blogging about it.

My most recent surprise pickle mail was this pretty little bag of pickle candies that are a direct result of the awesome job I have. I manage a co-working space in NOLA called Launch Pad, which means we provide professional work space for freelancers, startups, independent/young businesses etc. It’s a really fun mix of people, who are doing their own thing and following their passions. Last October we hosted a lovely writer from Brooklyn who was in NOLA for a month to soak up as much art, music, food and culture as she and her husband could while he also had his own show at a local art gallery. While she was working from Launch Pad that month we talked about blogging, Brooklyn and pickles and found it hilarious that she had once interviewed and written about my favorite pickling brothers, Bob & Joe McClure!

Colleen is one of those special people that sends handwritten thank you notes, that I try to be more like (and am failing, big time), but never would I have suspected she’d FIND and SEND me a bag of pickle shaped candies! Once I calmed down from the excitement, I had to find her on Facebook and ask her where in the F did she find these!?

Here: Sugar Shop-in Brooklyn (of course). You can’t order these online, but I have a hunch that if you called them up, they would pack up as many of these babies as you need and mail them to you too. The candy is NOT pickle flavored (sad face) but something more like green apple flavored and it’s somewhere between hard candy and gum…sort of like a hollow, pickle shaped, chewy sweettart (smiley face).

There ARE other pickle candies out there. I have a tin of Pickle Mints that I also received in the mail from my most favorite band of all time, The Wedding Present, and I know that there are pickle flavored gum-balls available (I’ve never had them but I can’t explain to you how excited pickle flavored gum gets me-no, I really can’t explain it)

Pickle GumBalls

AND I have come across a bucket of Haribo Gummy Pickles…if you know me well, you know that I have a very serious Haribo gummy addiction and if I find out you’re going to Europe I will INSIST that you bring me back Haribo gummies because the ones made over there are SO MUCH BETTER than the ones made here (typical). I’ve never ordered the Haribo Saure Gurken mainly because they aren’t pickle flavored…but hey, if you’re going to Europe and you see some….pick  me up a bucket? Colleen-any plans to go to Europe soon?

Haribo Saure Gurken-I think they could do better…